AISB 1097 - Senior System Engineer

Abakus IT-Solutions; Namen; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Abakus IT-Solutions is seeking an experienced infrastructure engineer to maintain and support production infrastructure including network, servers, storage, and data centre operations in Namur, Belgium. You will lead virtualization, containerisation, and backup initiatives with a strong emphasis on automation and documentation.

The role requires 6+ years in infrastructure-focused system engineering, hands-on work with VMware, OpenShift, Commvault, and automation tools, and a methodical,

Qualifications

• More than 6 years of experience in infrastructure-oriented system engineering.

Responsibilities

• Manage VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), VCF Operations and VCF Automation.
• Manage Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization.
• PowerShell scripting in a VMware vSphere environment.
• Report on environment status and capacity management.
• Automate with Ansible and Terraform.
• Setup and follow-up of monitoring alerts.
• Maintain technical documentation and operating procedures.
• Provide Level 2 support.

Skills

Automation

Monitoring

Networking

Documentation

ITIL

Service orientation

Rigour

Tools

VMware vSphere

VMware Cloud Foundation

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform

OpenShift Virtualization

vSphere Tanzu

Commvault backup

Ansible

Terraform

Job description

The role sits within a production infrastructure department responsible for the maintenance and support of networks, telephony, servers, operating systems, storage, backup and the data centre.

Within this department, the systems team manages the core infrastructure:

• physical and virtual servers;
• storage;
• monitoring services;
• backup services.

Key responsibilities

• Management of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), VCF Operations and VCF Automation
• Management of Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization
• PowerShell scripting in a VMware vSphere environment
• Reporting on the environment status and capacity management

Containerisation

• VMware vSphere with Tanzu: Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG), vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS)
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform

Backup

• Administration of the Commvault Cloud backup infrastructure

Operations

• Automation with Ansible and Terraform
• Setup and follow-up of monitoring alerts
• Maintenance of technical documentation and writing of operating procedures
• Level 2 support

Profile

Experience

• More than 6 years (72 months) of experience in infrastructure-oriented system engineering

Essential technical skills (expert level)

• Containerisation systems
• Commvault backup

Required skills (good knowledge)

• Automation
• Storage
• ITIL processes
• Monitoring tools
• Networking
• Rigour in documentation and procedure writing
• Service orientation in a level 2 support context

Languages

• French

Location and conditions

• On-site presence of at least 4 days per week on average (Namur)